Cowboys Poems

Ride'em Cowboys

old spaghetti westerns
and john wayne flics
what better way to spend
saturday afternoons

weekly shoot 'em ups
where at the end
cowboys and their horses
ride toward a dusty sunset


AP: 3rd place 2025, Honorable Mention 2025

Let the Cowboys be, in pastures new!

Cowboys
Let the cowboys be…
Let them tend to causes....genuine and real
To bequeath…an opportunity to be authentic.
To bequeath…a shot at redemption
To weed the errant and replant in ravines, chasms
In pastures new…
….the errant cowboys, 
…..burdensome, irksome, oppressive…too much
….for sale, with privileges too plentiful
…..the ones acting out.. avaricious mode aplenty
……one too many errors 
……. lives not to be trampled

Gunfight in Tucumcari

Dust swirls in Tucumcari,
Two shadows draw at noon,
Steel flashes, sharp echoes,
Silence falls, one man stands,
Desert sun claims the victor.

Cowboys

My brother and I shared a bedroom
With cowboys on every wall.
Though we’re three years apart
Our connection did start
While our baby bro slept down the hall.

My memories don’t have much info
Of the time that we spent in that room,
But since we got along
I don’t think I’d be wrong
Saying we were content (I’d assume).

When the crib for

two missing cowboys

two missing cowboys
wallets and cell phones in their trucks
their oldest friend gallops to the hills
to pray for his best friends
hoping they will return safely
with stories

Cowboys and Indians 2023

The cowboys always won
    The Indians always lost
       I yearned to see a cowboy
       with an arrow through his chest

    But then I read a story 'bout
    a cowboy who'd been scalped
  

Where the Cowboys Live

There’s only so many ways I can write a song
about a cowboy riding his horse cross the range
Are there any new words I can use to describe
the rugged mountains that tower over the plains

What else can I say about them icy cold rivers
that rapidly flows down from a snow covered peak
Or the beauty of a

A Cowboys Lullaby

A life four score and five short years
Of tender hearts and happy tears
Memories of yesteryear he's crafted into song
Each album paved , a stepping stone
The craftsmanship shaped a happy home
The Wordsmiths scribed a worthy tome, the faithfulnsingbalonf

A Texas sta, a fuiding light
For those of us who shine less bright
Golden Glovesstill raised in fight, defend the

My Favourite Cowboys

There was a day on TV
When westerns were all the rage
Together our masked hero the Lone Ranger
with Tonto kept outlaws in their cage

Wagon Train kept rolling along
Seth Adams the leader
Flint McCullough chief scout
old Charlie Wooster was the feeder

My all-time favorite Cowboy
had to be clearly Wagon Train
Flint was my all-time hero
my chief scout taking the strain!

Cowboys Hands

The Cowboys hands are strong and still as tough as leather but soft enough to touch a humming bird's wings. Always cowboy enough to not show his pain, he's been through every thing.Yet I his mother can feel all his accomplishments and his heart. And knows that he carries God with him everyday.

High Noon Tradition

With their guns fully loaded and pointed,

Two bad cowboys strike pose as appointed.

And, in high noon tradition,

without any contrition-

one left standing is not disappointed!


May 1, 2020


Contest: High Noon
Sponsor: Joseph May

Syllables: 10, 7

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Buckle-Bunny

Another pair of cowboy boots
beneath my bed
banishing dreams of
a permanent man
right out of my head

They call me a buckle-bunny
but that sets too low the bar
for at the end of the night
I take home the rodeo star

He rides wild horses
and even wilder bulls 
I lap him up by the mouthfuls

Lust curls in my belly
when I spy

Cowboys Love It When

Cowboys love it when,
There is no barbed wire in site,
And the local Sheriff, 
Is conspicuous by his absence.

Cowboys Love it when,
There is a shortage of skilled,
Builders Plumbers and electricians.

Cowboys love it when,
They can mostly check their own work,
And council staff are increasingly too busy,
Or on the take.

Cowboys love it when,
Lawyers are too expensive, for the

Cowboys

A cowboy has nowhere to stay
Except on the ground where they lay
With no song or dance
Nor chance of romance
All their dreams are filled with whoresplay!

Cowboys Wow

Late sixties cowboy films Bonanza, Rawhide
And Cheyenne – I loved these series.
Their theme songs come to mind ‘Wishing 
‘My gal was by my side’( Rawhide,)
Waiting at the end of my ride
‘Keep movin,’ movin’, movin,
Just rope em, throw and brand em
Soon we’ll be living high and wide
Rawhide’.
And then there was Cheyenne ,
‘Cheyenne, Cheyenne, where will
You be

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